For Clayton Class Students: Social Studies
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“All men are created equal”
A variety of similarities exist between Egypt and the American Declaration of Independence. If it succeeds, they could get help, money, aid, and also trade crops and goods across your rebels, now that you are an independent country or nation. But what if it doesn’t? Well, since you don’t really have that right of independence, you could not have freedom and the rights to do many things. So now, let’s take a look at some of the similarities between Egypt and America on the Declaration of Independence. One of the similarities between the Egypt Revolution the 1776 U.S Declaration of Independence and the recent Revolution are that “all men are created equal.” They all have rights and they can do whatever they wanted with it. All men are endowed with given inalienable rights. Another crucial similarity is that the government is there for their people and his/her people are able to remove the government if the government abuses its power. Government can’t abuse its power otherwise consequences are big. Those are just some of the many similarities that exist between the Egypt and American Declaration of Independence.What you hope for, is to make the declaration work. You don’t know what might come out of it.
group 1 - opening sentence... do you mean Egypt the place or do you need to be more specific and talk about the 2011 revolution in Egypt?
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By Christine C & Solina
Searching back through history books, many professors have found that societies are still walking on the same track as we walked on back then. Let’s take the Egyptian Revolution in 2011, and the US Declaration of Independence in 1776. Inalienable rights. A word that should be respected. But it didn’t matter in 1776, nor that it matters now in 2011. In Egypt, the citizens couldn’t have rights, rights that shouldn't be taken away, to choose who rules them - their governor. As for the U.S, a bunch of taxes were thrown at the colonies without their out. “No taxation without representation!!” An infuriated Samuel Adams cried. The lack of free election led to civil resistance both in 1776 and in 2011. Egyptians, heated with their governor they never got to choose, started their civil resistance on the 25th of January, 2011, which is now known as the start of the Egyptian Revolution. Egypt may have been heated, but the U.S. were enraged. Raging with the "unvoted" taxes on many things such as tea and mail, they had many big civil resistances. For instance, the Boston Tea Party - which was on tea - and the Tar and Feathering - which was done to the tax collectors. These revolts happened at different times, but there is one thing Egypt and the U.S. definitely both had a rebellion on. The food price inflation. 1776, Britain was raising the food prices immensely. this, naturally raised the temper of the colonies. As for Egypt, one of the reasons the Egyptian Revolutions started was the hugely inflating prices of food. Back to present now, revolutions have decreased the numbers greatly. So far not yet is there any conflicts to start over a debacle. However, there are varieties of similarities through the past and present as explained above. It needs to be recognized that these similarities shouldn’t be existed anymore. Each nation needs to take part of equality.
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There was a ride variety of similarities and repetition between the American Revolution in 1776 and the Egyptian Revolution 2011. The most similar properties were large protests of the subjected, the heightening of of the usual price of food, and lacking the freedom of speech. If a nation would want to be successful, the nation’s general public should agree with the leader’s choice. If they don’t, the general public will start to get more and more active (and we all know there are ones that just go crazy about activism) and soon the whole nation will turn against each other. Granting the freedom of speech to the general public will let the leader know what the position even the lowest class of the nation are in, whether it is about taxes, unfairness, or job losses. And knowing what your nation’s people’s position could help you choose your next decision on where you want to go politically. Now the next of many similarities was that the producers of the food, needing of food, ordered to heighten the price of the original price, to gain more money. It was a clever tactic because most of the people of both countries were probably almost starving of exhaustion after a whole day of protesting against the government. This would probably increase the number of starvation due to the low income the low poor class get and the lack of democracy. If we were the leaders, we all agreed that we would be fair and just and only go with decisions if the majority of our nation agree with it unless the majority are a little uneducated and don’t think about consequences. The last similarity we will share with you is the vast amount of protests organized. In both points of history, there was a large quantity of protests. The reason why was that unfair leaders wanted more money and power, and soon became corrupt with it. So, the leaders gradually commenced to bend the rules and use them to get more money. Those are the similarities between the reasons why The American Revolution and The Egyptian Revolution were provoked.
By: Olivia, Neha and Sara
It's interesting how many times the past repeats itself. Past- Voldemort opened the chamber of secrets. A little later- Harry Potter reopened the chamber of secrets. Oh wait, sorry, that's not real history! Let me try again. 1776- American Revolution. The Americans wanted to overthrow the British king. 2011- Egyptians wanted to impeach their president.What are the similarities between the 1776 US Declaration of Independence and the recent revolution in Egypt?
The revolution in Egypt is similar to the Declaration of Independence in many ways. One of the reasons is that people did not have the right to choose their own government. King George III was an absolute ruler during colonial period in America. What is an absolute ruler you say? It means that people could not decide who their leader was. During that time, leading up to the Revolutionary War, people couldn’t decide what laws should exist and people did not have any right to speak against the King. Above all, people did not like that their hard earnings were being collected in the form of “tax” and taken to support King George III’s lifestyle. The recent revolution in Egypt was caused by similar problems. Mubarak was in power for about 30 years. His family had all the power, while the rest of the people had no power. People did not have the right to vote. People did not have the right to speak against his government without being punished. Most importantly, the people in Egypt know that Mubarak and his family lived richly while they live poorly. It all boils down to fairness and peoples' rights! People did not want their money taken away as tax by the King back in 1776. In Egypt, people were tired of living poor lives with no rights while Mubarak lived richly. In the end both attempts were successful. The Americans earned independence from the king, and the Egyptians forced President Mubarak to step down as the president. ATTEMPTS: SUCCESSFUL
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